What did Grace Paley mean by: Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others. - Grace Paley Copy
+ I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Grace Paley, Believe, Voice, 0 - Grace Paley
+ Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 17, 2024, Grace Paley, Optimistic, 0 - Grace Paley
+ You become a writer because you need to become a writer – nothing else. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 17, 2024, Grace Paley, Writing, 0 - Grace Paley
+ You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Grace Paley, Erotic, Mind, 0 - Grace Paley
+ I don’t believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person’s senses. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 17, 2024, Grace Paley, Believe, Education, Philosophy, 0 - Grace Paley
+ I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 17, 2024, Grace Paley, Fantasy, Mind, Students, 0 - Grace Paley
+ It’s a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 17, 2024, Grace Paley, Terrible, Youth, 0 - Grace Paley
+ The women’s movement was coming, but I didn’t know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 17, 2024, Grace Paley, Movement, Writing, 0 - Grace Paley
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
